Chapter 8: The Crimson Blood Tree
"It's just two rabbit rats, I thought there were immortals."
"Hitah, are we really going to exterminate all living creatures with dragon characteristics?"
"Hido, what are we going to do?"
Gesturing silently to warn his companions, Hita slightly loosened the longbow made by Bloodtree.
To be precise, this is the subspecies Blood Tree Longbow.
As a Blood Tree Elf, unlike other Forest Elves, weapons made of Blood Tree branches are the most suitable for them.
However, this is also to be distributed according to strength.
It's not so much a weapon as an "animal companion".
Just like the falcons of the rangers, and the snakes, leopards, wolves, and bears around the druids.
No, maybe a little tighter?
"It's okay, let's go this way."
Dropping his guard gesture, Sydo motioned to his companions for them to follow.
His gaze swept over his companions, who, just like him, had the characteristics of change brought about by the power of the Blood Tree.
The pale skin, and the hair that had become golden red with blood.
Blood Tree Ritual.
Through the ritual of combining life-linking spells, natural ally spells, and druid's transformation spells, each elf, after the Blood Tree ceremony, can gradually change the nature of the life energy in his body-
This aggressive, bloodthirsty mutant life energy not only gives them attack power far beyond that of ordinary elves, but also allows the branches of the blood tree to survive around them for a long time in a form similar to grafting.
If the blood tree branches that you carry with you are weaker than you, at most they are not far from yourself, then the blood tree elves can bear it.
However, if the Blood Tree Branch that you bring with you has a need that exceeds your own recovery ability and has a strength that exceeds your own strength, then there is a possibility that the Blood Tree Branch will forcibly seize the life force of the Blood Tree Elves as "allies" and "partners".
The reason why the Blood Tree was originally a taboo for the Forest Elves was because of their aggressiveness that could explode at any time, even if ignoring the contractual relationship would lead to their own damage or even death.
For evaluations like "insane madmen", even if he becomes a blood tree elf, Xido doesn't feel biased.
Even, after becoming a Blood Tree Elf, he thought that this evaluation was very accurate.
"Hitto, Captain Eindor wants us to go this way, right?"
Hildo glanced back at his companion who had spoken, and his pale, bloodshot right hand was still gripping the bowstring, and the end of the arrow was also on the bowstring, ready to shoot at any moment after he pulled the bowstring, and dealt a fatal blow to the enemy.
Of course, it's not just shooting at your companions.
"If you have so much time to ask this and that, you might as well use your eyes to carefully check the surroundings, and find all the targets that Captain Eindor is looking for, so that we can complete the task as soon as possible and go back as soon as possible."
Hita sighed, his eyes glowing with a faint blood-colored glow, strengthening his eyesight.
This powerful combat power brought by the mutant life energy from the Blood Tree has become a weapon that cannot be given up since the history of the Great Tribulation known to the elves.
However, the elves have never stopped trying to reduce and reduce the danger.
The subspecies Blood Tree is one solution.
Aggressive and bloodthirsty than the original Blood Tree, a relatively more "peaceful" tree species.
The original Blood Tree needed an elf that was strong enough to not be in danger during the ritual.
And the emergence of the subspecies blood tree, there are also a series of ways to reduce the danger and threshold, although there are more or less side effects of improving combat effectiveness as the original, but Xiduo also knows very well that a stable channel, a method that can be popularized, is what the elven kingdom needs most.
After a hundred years, the "Blood Tree Hunter", which originally existed as a rare, dangerous, and powerful class with high talent requirements, has now become a path that can be popularized and has a clear path to ascent.
From the special Druid variant "class" of the Blood Tree Hunter, to the current "Blood Tree Elf", the changes are not too clear.
There are even elves who have suggested that the "Blood Tree Elves" should be established as a subspecies of forest elves.
Whether the person who made this suggestion hated and feared the Blood Tree Elves or was proud of the Blood Tree Elves' identity, friendly or hostile, intended to split the Blood Tree Elves or wanted to create hidden dangers, it also clearly stated one thing, and that was the growth of the Blood Tree's power.
Along with it, there is the growth of the blood tree's power.
Xido himself is not involved in the political situation, but this does not mean that he does not understand the internal situation of the elven kingdom.
The Blood Tree force was originally a side of the army and a subordinate force a hundred years ago, but now it even has a faint meaning of the symbol of "army".
Currently, two-thirds of the Elven Kingdom's army are Blood Tree Elves.
The remaining one-third are spellcasters.
However, the caster is also on the verge of falling.
The bloodthirsty energy of the Blood Tree Elves does not match the various natural spells commonly used by the elves, and many spells cannot be used by the Blood Tree Elves, so the Blood Tree Elves lacked spell-casting troops at the beginning.
Moreover, there are also reasons within the elven kingdom, not all elves are willing to let the blood tree elves master more spells.
But that's about to be a thing of the past.
"Hita ......" At this time, the voice of his companion interrupted his thoughts.
"If you ask again, I'll apply to let you go to the Blood Forest to train well, and strive to let you join the spellcasting force."
Xiduo, who was interrupted from his thoughts, said angrily, and as he spoke, his gaze did not take his eyes off his surroundings.
The spell-casting troops he was talking about were not ordinary spell-casting troops.
Because of his background, Xiduo, who is relatively well-informed, knows that a blood tree elf spell casting force that has been secretly cultivated will appear soon after they set off.
With the Blood Tree Elf's spellcasting force a fait accompli, obstruction, even if it exists, cannot be suppressed as before.
But then the question arises, probably whether the elven kingdom will fully turn around, from a defensive posture to an offensive one, or even directly attack nearby countries.
Xiduo also has questions about this issue.
Naturally, Hita has a negative attitude towards attacking other kingdoms and even empires.
But his denial was not because the attack was wrong, the grievances between the elven kingdom and other kingdoms and empires could be said to be innumerable.
And the elven kingdom has long been accustomed to being on the defensive, and when encountering any problems, most of them adopt a defensive strategy that can be said to be a loss, and now that the elven kingdom is gradually becoming stronger, both the people and the army are becoming more and more dissatisfied.
However, the problem lies in the Undead Wasteland.
The threat of the Undead Wasteland never disappears.
Launching an assault on the Undead Wasteland? The Elven Kingdom will take on the main force of clearing the Undead Wasteland?
If other kingdoms and empires see this, they should not be too happy.
Because, the situation has been laid out, the reason why the Undead Wasteland has survived to this day, in addition to the existence of various powerful undead in the Undead Wasteland, is more because no one is willing to waste their strength.
The crusade against the undead will inevitably cost a lot of casualties as the main force.
But if the undead are left behind, it will continue to weaken the power of the kingdoms.
Especially the elven kingdom, which is the focus of every undead attack.
The most important thing to pay attention to the threat of the undead is probably the Elven Kingdom.
However, several attempts to join forces to clear the Undead Wasteland have failed.
Other kingdoms and empires may also look forward to the day when this elven kingdom can't stand it anymore and take the initiative to take it upon themselves to clear the undead wasteland.
This kind of situation that even the civilians of the Elven Kingdom know, the tendency of the Blood Tree Elves, or the military side, is-
Don't let the enemy succeed.
It is better to abandon the defense or even relocate the inhabitants on the edge of the border, remove some of the tree walls, and then lure the undead to the borders of other kingdoms and empires when they are also defending against the threat of the undead, as a retaliation, and then find a way to recover the territory occupied by the undead.
This has become the idea of the radical faction in many kingdoms, mainly the blood tree elves, and it has completely become an open opinion.
As for this kind of self-inflicted revenge, Xido does not know whether to support or oppose it.
Captain Eindor, however, is radical.
For other realms, especially the Dragon Empire, Captain Aindor has a strong hatred.
Cause? Is it because the Dragon Empire is the initiator of the cataclysm? And several times to obstruct the establishment of the Alliance to Eradicate the Undead?
No, Xido has heard a piece of news.
About the origin of Captain Eindor.
That is, Captain Eindor may have been a survivor of the Wall of Bale incident, or he may have dealt with the incident.
Dragon-like creatures have the ability to suppress and enslave lower-level creatures, and the abundance of various dragon-born and dragon-like creatures in various regions has led the Dragon Empire to launch one small disaster after another, either overtly or covertly.
The Wall of Bale is an event that took place near the Elven Kingdom, where thousands of elves were slaughtered by low-level dragon creatures.
It was difficult to find clear evidence for this kind of thing, and although it took great effort to find the scales of the superior dragon at that time, it was also refuted by the Dragon Empire on the grounds that "what the lower dragon collected because of the worship instinct of the superior dragon cannot be used as evidence, and this is slander".
However, these thousands of elves were all within the tree wall, and without command, what kind of low-level dragons could complete the slaughter like this?
Anyone with a discerning eye can see the problem, but he can only swallow his anger, and even because of the pressure of the Dragon Empire at that time, he can't even explain it.
After experiencing this kind of hatred, he didn't think it was strange what kind of attitude Captain Eindor would have.
With a sigh, Xido gripped the Blood Tree Bow again.
Just clean it up according to the captain's wishes.
It was more comfortable to face the corpses of those dragon creatures than to face the gaze of Captain Eindor.
Watching his bow draw, the two Blood Elf companions couldn't help but close their mouths.
Although he knows that he will not shoot himself with a bow and arrow, but, what if?